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Welcome to the Engadget holiday gift guide! Picking presents for friends and loved ones is never a simple task, and with thousands of options for each category, buying technology can be an especially frustrating experience. We’re here to help. Below you’ll find today’s bevy of curated picks, and you can head back to our hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the holiday season.

Nothing quite says “holidays” like snuggling up with your favorite gaming device and putting some serious time into the backlog of games piling up next to the TV. But 2012 is a year of change when it comes to gaming devices — PC graphics cards are dropping in price and easily outclassing console competition, and new entrants like the PlayStation Vita and Nintendo Wii U offer novel ways to interact with classic characters. So, what should you get for the gaming-inclined people in your life? Read on to find out what will fit best into your budget this year.

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Entrepreneur Elon Musk is well-known for talking trash about the vehicular competition… just not when it involves rockets instead of four wheels. Still, that’s what we’re facing in the wake of a BBC interview. He tells the broadcaster that the Ariane 5 rocket stands “no chance” in the face of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy systems from his own SpaceX outfit, as it’s more expensive to use — and the contrast will only get worse when a cheaper, next-generation Falcon 9 arrives, he says. Musk echoes France’s position that Ariane should skip a mid-life upgrade to its vehicle and jump directly to a less expensive Ariane 6. The executive has a point when there’s more than 40 booked SpaceX flights so early into the Falcon program’s history, although there’s something left to prove when the first scheduled Dragon capsule launch ran into a non-critical engine failure. We’ll know that Musk can walk the walk if there’s still a long line of SpaceX customers by the time Ariane 6 hits the launchpad.

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If you can believe it, it was five years ago today when Amazon launched their first Kindle ereader to the public. Granted, it was a little chunky and covered in all sorts of buttons, but it introduced a new way of reading to the world, and since then, many companies have joined in on the fun to get their slice of the ereader market.

For the past five years, the Kindle has been a staple in the book industry, and each year Amazon has improved on the device to make it better and easier to use for consumers. Putting Amazon’s latest Kindle, the Kindle Paperwhite, next to the original Kindle side-by-side makes you shake your head at the strides that Amazon has made to the ereader throughout the past five years.

The first-ever Kindle featured an 800×600 e-ink display and had 250MB of internal storage, with the option to expand storage with a microSD card (the only Kindle that had a memory card slot). The device sold for $399 and ended up selling out within the first few hours of launch. It wasn’t until April 2008 when stock of the ereader was replenished.

Since then, Amazon has slowly been slimming down its Kindle ereaders and even adding touchscreens in order to eliminate all the buttons for a sleeker design. Last year was the first time Amazon introduced a touchscreen on a Kindle device, called the Kindle Touch. It came with 4GB of storage and retailed for as low as $99.

Amazon Kindle turns 5 today is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this round-up, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want to act fast, though, as many of these offerings won’t stick around long.

Would you rather do anything other than fight the droves of folks heading out to shop on Friday? Well, you’re in luck. We’ve got a fresh list of pre-Black Friday deals that are looking to lend a hand with some of that dreaded holiday shopping. Dell and Acer desktops are out of the gate first, followed by a Panasonic Lumix micro four thirds camera, an ASUS Transformer and a ViewSonic Projector. Head on past the break for all of the particulars before these links are gobbled up for good.

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